AssentWorks secures 3D printer with new expansion

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A local company with an innovative capacity to print 3D images has no shortage of ideas on how to spend some government money.

Kerry Stevenson, a director with Winnipeg-based AssentWorks, one of Canada’s largest and most accessible public-fabrication centres, will host federal cabinet minister Vic Toews for a funding announcement this morning.

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Kerry Stevenson wipes down a printed model of a car from the new 3D printer at Assentworks and Ramp Up Manitoba space in the Exchange. The printer can make any physical object from a computer 3D model by bonding a composite powder in layers to create a full colour solid object. It's one of two printers in the city, according to Stevenson. Purchase Photo Print

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